On Thursday, May 18th, the MediSys Health Network was honored as a Healthcare Hero by Schneps Media. The network was recognized for its newly developed cancer care program. Accepting the award were Dr. Rosa Nouvini and the rest of the cancer care team at MediSys.
Earlier this year, the MediSys Health Network announced a partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center to provide much-needed, local oncology services to the people of Queens at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
Queens is the most culturally diverse county in the United States and many of the over one million people we serve face significant healthcare barriers. One of which is the lack of cancer care services. Currently, there are no comprehensive cancer care centers in the borough. Through the development of this partnership, the MediSys Health Network and Memorial Sloan Kettering plan to address this need and increase access to world-class cancer care.
The foundation of the MediSys cancer care program has already been established. Dr. Rosa Nouvini, an oncologist at MSK has been named Site Director for Cancer Services at Jamaica Hospital and is currently seeing patients weekly at a specially designated clinic. In addition, Dr. David G. Pfister, Chief, Head, and Neck Oncology Service and Associate Deputy Physician-in-Chief, Strategic Partnerships; will be serving as the Chief of Oncology at Jamaica Hospital. Dr. Pfister and Dr. Nouvini will be joined by a team of oncologists who will receive training in all MSK protocols and have access to their clinical trials.
Other network goals are to establish separate lung and prostate cancer screening programs and build a comprehensive cancer center on the Jamaica Hospital campus where the majority of cancer treatments will be provided locally, with the ability to transfer some cases to our partners at MSK.